Anand Mahindra Quotes

You can never plan the future by the past.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

We cannot truly plan, because we do not understand the future-but this is not necessarily a bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I know for sure that nothing is guaranteed. Life always changes. I know for sure that I'm open to all possibilities always... let's just say my life is never boring.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.